Echols, John, 1823-1896
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1508
Overview
Correspondence of Miss Hattie A. Fudge, Tazewell, Virginia. A majority of the letters are written by soldiers of the Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment (Confederate) commanded by Generals John B. Floyd, W.W. Loring, and John Echols. Subjects include Floyd's military engagements, 1861; Battle of Lewisburg, 1862; skirmishes along the line of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad; and Jubal Early's January, 1864, raid into the South Branch Valley.
Dates:
1861-1864
Hays Family of Gilmer County, West Virginia Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2734
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Hays family of Gilmer County, West Virginia, centering on Peregrine Hays and his son Samuel Hays. The collection includes Civil War related material; correspondence; financial, business, and legal records; and other material. The Civil War material includes a receipt for the sale of enslaved Africans, military orders, and records of financial transactions made in Confederate currency. The correspondence within the collection includes personal letters between members of the Hays...
Dates:
1837-1963; Majority of material found in 1863-1902
Mason Mathews, Attorney, Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3115
Overview
The 24 letters are addressed to Mason Mathews, a Lewisburg attorney and father of Governor Henry Mason Mathews and cover the years 1873 until his death in 1878. Another letter to Mathews daughter, Sallie Patton is incomplete. One deed, dated 1836, is witnessed by Mathews as a justice of the peace. Frequent correspondents include: John Echols, John W. Johnston, Walter N. Johnston, and Howard Shriver.
Dates:
1836-1886
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview
Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates:
1774, 1822-1943
Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents
The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates:
circa 1788-1888
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- Slaves and slavery. 3
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cemeteries -- Recording 1
- Civil War - Virginia 45th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - military telegraph. 1
- Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
- Civil War battles - Lewisburg. 1
- Education 1
- Egypt 1
- Estates and estate settlements. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Indians, North American. 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Land. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Marriage records 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
- Military camps 1
- Money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Pioneers 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. 1
- Registers of births, etc 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Schools 1
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 1
- South Branch Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Tennessee 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Vicksburg (Miss.) 1
- Women -- Education -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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